On Sunday, December 02, 2001 at 15:01, Winsor Crosby
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wrote re "Re: [OT][OM] Palm [was hyper focal scales, or lac" saying:
> > > I have dofCalc on my Palm as well. I use the note
> >> function to keep track of the locations, lens,
> >> aperture, shutter speed, filters, and exposure
> >> compensation. I also jotted notes from Skip Williams
> >> excellent eBay price database so I could have this
> >> when cruising camera stores and pawn shops.
> >> Warren
> >>
> >And the advantage over a pencil and paper is...? Pencil & paper being
> >lighter, smaller, cheaper, easier, more fool proof etc., etc.
> >
> >Mike
> >
> >--
> >Latitude 48° 32' North, Longitude 123° 7' West
> >
>
> Lots of advantages.I keep lots of information on it that I could not
> possibly keep organized with paper and pencil. Besides the address
> book, and calendar it has a note function in which I have things
> like photo reference material I don't use enough to remember
> reliably, grocery lists for each store I usually shop in, packing
> lists for travelling, a list of URLs to check out, books I have read
> reviews of that I might want to check out at the library, CD lists. I
> have Moby Dick, the entire novel, a couple of Shakespeare plays, and
> some articles loaded which I am reading when stuck in a waiting room.
> There are thousands of applications which can be loaded. I have one
> for metric conversions and money conversion when traveling. I have an
> interest in astronomy and have a couple of applications that give
> planet, star and moon information and their movements. I can load
> family photos into it. I also have a neat little application that
> acts like a compass. You point an arrow on the screen at the sun and
> based on the calendar and time of day it calculates and points to
> north for you. Of course there are games, but they don't have much
> appeal for me.
>
> It is much lighter than the 3 pound paper organizer I used to use on
> my job. It is much more flexible in rescheduling appointments. The
> information is all in one place, not in two or three little notebooks
> or a multitude of scraps of paper. Its little reminder alarm keeps me
> on time. And it fits in my pocket. You don't use it just for taking
> notes. That is just one of the functions. It is pretty much
> foolproof because everything is backed up when you synch it with your
> home or office computer. No one really believes how useful these
> things are until they take the plunge and buy one.
Ditto. And don't forget the global "Find" function.
Tom
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